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JCPA—ICPA-Forum Winter 2019 Newsletter

JCPA & ICPA-Forum Newsletter | Winter 2019
What's New with the JCPA & ICPA-Forum
Message From The President And Editor-in-Chief

On behalf of The Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, below you will find information about the 20th Anniversary Classics of Comparative Policy Analysis Book Series, the newest issue of the JCPA, new partnerships and updates for 2020 to publishing in the JCPA!

On behalf of the JCPA & ICPA-Forum Team, we wish you a happy and healthy holiday season!

Professor Iris Geva-May and the JCPA & ICPA-Forum Scholarly Society Team
Classics of Comparative Policy Analysis Book Series
Published on December 15, 2019
The Classics of Policy Analysis is a collection of the most representative articles in the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis (JCPA) on its 20th anniversary.

The articles published in the JCPA have become classics of the field of comparative policy analytic studies, and have established it as a distinctive field. (Thomson Reuters 2008; Radin 2013: Geva-May, Hoffman and Muhleisen 2018).

The papers published over the last two decades in JCPA are explicitly comparative and could be viewed as cornerstones of comparative public policy analysis theory, methodology, policy inter-disciplinarity, and inter-regional scholarship.

Contributors include founders of the field of policy analysis, comparative politics and comparative public administration and management from which comparative policy analysis has derived: Peter deLeon, Duncan McRae, Laurence E. Lynn, B. Guy Peters, Beryl Radin, David Weimer, Frans Van Nispen, Yukio Adachi, as well as second and third generation policy analysis scholars who have set high scholarship bars in advancing the field.

Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Volume 21:5 is Out Now!
The JCPA's Impact Factor jumped to 1.963 this year!

]This also moves the Journal up in ranking on the 6th place among policy journals in the Public Administration category.
New Institutional Partnership!
Welcome Exeter University as Silver Level Partner!

The JCPA and ICPA-Forum is pleased to announce our new Silver Level Partnership with Exeter University as facilitated by....
JCPA Publishing Updates for 2020

Moving to 6 Issues Per Year!
  • In 2020, the JCPA will be publishing 6 issues per year due to high quality submissions, readership, and increase in index. The JCPA has a 20% acceptance rate and commitment to first response in 10 days from submission and -8 weeks for reviews responses.


Free Access and Open Access Publishing!
  • In 2020 the JCPA will extend 3 weeks free access on selected articles from each issue's publication, courtesy of Taylor & Francis. The JCPA will continue to accept Open Access articles. For information on publishing open access, click here.
The INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF POLICY ANALYSIS (ILPA) 2013-2020, Policy Press, UK, is edited by JCPA Co-editors Iris Geva-May and Michael Howlett

Edited by Caner Bakir and Günes Ertan
This volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the state of policy analysis in Turkey for an international audience. It will be a valuable resource for those studying policy analysis within Turkey and as a comparison with other volumes in the International Library of Policy Analysis Series.


Policy analysis in Canada brings together original contributions from many of the field’s leading scholars. Contributors chronicle the evolution of policy analysis in Canada over the past 50 years and reflect on its application in both governmental and non-governmental settings.


Edited by John A. Hird
Policy Analysis in the United States brings together contributions from some of the world’s leading scholars and practitioners of public policy analysis including Beryl Radin, David Weimer, Rebecca Maynard, Laurence Lynn, and Guy Peters.


Policy analysis in France lays the foundation for a more systematic understanding of policy analysis in the country. In doing so, the volume discusses the role of the State and its restructuring, processes of government and governance, and State-Society relationships and policies as both a process and an outcome.
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